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Friday was Sysadmin Appreciation Day! Yay!

July 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Geek Out!

Boing Boing: Happy Sysadmin Day, Ken!
Today is the last Friday in July and that makes it Sysadmin Appreciation Day! As I said in my acceptance speech when I won the Locus Award for my story, When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth: Systems administrators are the unsung heroes of the twenty first century, [...]

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Meanwhile, back at the suburb: the village worth its salt:
29/Aug/08

Daily Herald | Hoffman Estates starts stocking up on salt tonight Breaking news: Chicago-area residents should expect a “very cold period” after Thanksgiving. That’s according to the winter weather projections in the 2009 edition of the “The Old Farmer’s Almanac,” in stores in next month. Yep, my village is debating the cost of road salt, in August, because the Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts a cold winter. Well, they did run out of salt last winter…

Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch | Oddly Enough | Reuters:
28/Aug/08

Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch | Oddly Enough | Reuters That it has come to this: iPhone isn’t sexy enough for the Poles, who probably don’t like their one and only provider’s plan any better than the Brits like theirs.

Only Connect: Holding together but going nowhere:
25/Aug/08

Only Connect: Holding together but going nowhere From our viewpoint the bishops talked in secret little groups in their ‘big top’ surrounded by a ring of police and only emerged once to go to London to tell society how wicked it was not to do more about the debt. Many of us had worked in or visited Africa and experienced the poverty. We do all we can to press for justice and support the aid agencies but we also know about violence against women in Africa and the persecution of gay people. They are the real victims and scapegoats in this whole process.

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Friday was Sysadmin Appreciation Day! Yay!

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